Makan Negahban

After spending nearly a decade writing and performing music, Negahban transitioned into painting, participating in a range of group and solo exhibitions. His work spans diverse techniques, compositions and media, drawing on the wide spectrum of artistic languages available to a contemporary artist in order to explore and express the complexity of human experience. 

Following a solo exhibition in California in September, he recently relocated to New York City for a residency with Project Moné. There, he continues to expand on the representational works presented last fall while developing a new body of work with evolving aesthetic and conceptual directions. His representational paintings aim to capture raw, expressive moments, executed rapidly on unprimed, unstretched canvas to preserve the immediacy and energy of the act. Focusing on scenes of human activity, Negahban’s work navigates a full range of representation from primitive, gestural marks to more refined, realistic depictions. In doing so, his paintings function both as dynamic vehicles of expression and as intimate reflections on the fleeting and ephemeral nature of lived experience.